Somewhere beneath a blanket of snow lay a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base.
"I must have been out of my mind to agree to come here on a mission with you," Melinda complained.
After so few successful missions, she had all but been sidelined by S.H.I.E.L.D., or rather, by the Field Operations Department.
The logistics staff were delighted to have someone as talented as Melinda.
This Melinda was not yet the one who had mistakenly killed a child whose superpowers had gone out of control.
She still had ambitions.
She hoped to become an elite agent on Peggy Carter's level.
To earn honors and commendations and reach the pinnacle of her career!
"sigh."
Melinda sighed at the window.
Coulson had said he would take her on a field mission.
She had never expected his secret mission to "trick" her into coming to this freezing wasteland.
"Stop complaining, May. We might finish the mission soon!"
Coulson had, of course, volunteered to come.
Everyone knew he was a devoted fan of Captain America-a die-hard fan.
Having caught wind of news about Captain America, Coulson naturally could not contain his excitement.
The revival plan!
That was the name of the plan to rescue Captain America.
The search for Captain America had never actually stopped. A search had been attempted right after the plane crashed.
But technology back then had been far too primitive to support prolonged exploration and excavation.
Only after Howard's Stark Industries rose to prominence and he developed sufficiently advanced equipment had the search for Captain America resumed.
But the project soon stalled.
With Howard's death, it lost a source of funding.
Still, a small amount of funding had kept the project going, and when Nick Fury heard Wanda from a parallel world say that Captain America was still alive...
He increased the